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“Reviving old Desires:”  Saadi and Omar Khayyam  on Celebrating the New Year
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“Reviving old Desires:” Saadi and Omar Khayyam on Celebrating the New Year

Juan Cole

The dawn wind wafts the scent of the New Year / to friends’ delight and triumphant good cheer.

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

01/01/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

01/01/2026 By The Conversation

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Political Pluralism breaks out in Tunisia

Political Pluralism breaks out in Tunisia

Tunisia’s election outcome gives 41% to the Muslim fundamentalist party Al-Nahda. One of the other two winners is the Rally for the Republic– of long-time […]

Juan Cole

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Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement

Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement

Kusha Sefat writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Following the disputed Presidential election in Iran, our Western compatriots gave many suggestions on combating […]

Juan Cole

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If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is

If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is

The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the top 1% has tripled its income since 1979, while the upper middle class has increased its wealth much […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Is Syria in Civil War?

Is Syria in Civil War?

Robert Fisk uses the “C” word about Syria– Civil War. He takes seriously both the human rights organizations’ allegation that the regime has killed some […]

Juan Cole

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Grossman:  Call your Congressman and Save International Studies in the US!

Grossman: Call your Congressman and Save International Studies in the US!

The current House of Representatives don’t hold with Amurkins knowin’ ’bout furriners, and seems determined to defund federal support for international studies in the US. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Islamic Law not a problem in Bush’s Afghanistan & Iraq, but a Problem in Libya?

Islamic Law not a problem in Bush’s Afghanistan & Iraq, but a Problem in Libya?

George W. Bush said of Iraq and Afghanistan,, “I’d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people…” The 2004 Constitution […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Namibia: Largest Solar Plant in S. Hemisphere Planned

Namibia: Largest Solar Plant in S. Hemisphere Planned

US-based SSI Energy Solutions plans to construct the largest solar power plant in the southern hemisphere in the southern African country of Namibia (population 2 […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Ambassador Ford’s Departure a Defeat for al-Assad

Ambassador Ford’s Departure a Defeat for al-Assad

With the departure of the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, from Damascus and the summoning home of Syrian ambassador Emad Moustafa, President Obama’s original […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Surprises of the Tunisian Election

Surprises of the Tunisian Election

Tunisia kicked off the Arab Spring, with its urban crowds effectively protesting the decades-long dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his nepotistic in-laws, […]

Juan Cole

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